Description

This course covers advanced topics in computer vision in which vision problems are formulated and solved by inference from noisy and uncertain data from statistical learning viewpoint. Topics include learning algorithms and their applications to computer vision problems, as well future research directions.

Lectures

·        CSIE building 105

·        6:00 to 8:45 pm

Office Hours and contact information

  • Instructor: Ming-Hsuan Yang (Please call me Ming-Hsuan)
  • Email: mhyang @ csie.ntu.edu.tw
  • Students are encouraged to send me emails for questions and project discussions
  • Office hours: whenever I am at office

Topics

  • Dimensionality reduction (2.5 lectures, 09/28, 09/29, 10/03):  principal component analysis, factor analysis, probabilistic principal component analysis, mixture of probabilistic principal component analyzers, mixture of factor analyzers, isomap, locally linear embedding.
  • Classifier (1.5 lectures, 10/03, 10/04): Fisher linear discriminant, support vector machine, relevance vector machine, kernel methods, Adaboost.
  • Generative model (2 lectures, 10/19, 10/20): graphical model, Bayesian inference,  belief propagation, Gaussian process, EM algorithm.
  • Approximate inference (2 lectures, 10/24, 10/25): Markov chain Monte Carlo, variational learning.
  • Visual tracking (2 lectures, 11/21, 11/22):  particle filter, mean shift, 2D/3D human tracking.
  • Dynamics (2 lectures, 11/23, 11/24): Autoregressive models, linear dynamic system, Kalman filter, dynamic textures, video synthesis.
  • Image feature (1 lecture, 12/26): interest point, SIFT, exemplar.
  • Object detection (1 lecture, 12/27): face/car/pedestrian detection, human pose estimation.
  • Other topics (1 lecture, 12/28): regression, Markov random field, conditional random field, convex optimization.
  • Project presentations (1 or 2 lectures, 12/29, 12/30).
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